Because just because Harmonix won't make it doesn't mean I can't come up with something.
For all my followers who know nothing about Dance Central, Dance Central 3 ended by teasing that the Glitterati would be the villains of the next game, taking advantage of DCI being stretched so thin by Dr.Tan's evil plan to properly fight back.
The player arrives to DCI headquarters, which is in chaos. Rasa and Lima explain that their systems have gone down and that they are unable to reach out to the other agents or even monitor the city. They need to power Boomy with star energy to try to stabilize the systems (thus introducing the player to Boomy, getting stars, etc.)
After the intro song, Rasa and Lima determine that they have gotten DCI's basic systems back online, however most of the systems are still down. They also suspect that the failure was a sabotage, but they don't know yet.
To fully restart the systems and figure out what happened, Rasa and Lima need all hands on deck. Without communications, however, they can't contact the agents. Thus they send the player to find the agents and send them back to headquarters to help with fixing things.
Currently they only know the whereabouts of D-Coy, as they were sent on a recon mission shortly before the systems went down. They send the player to join them, help them finish their mission, and then send them back to headquarters.
The player goes to meet Dare and McCoy. They explain that they have come to a roadblock in their mission. The player dances to some songs with them, allowing them to finish their tasks.
As they get ready to go back to DCI headquaters, Dare tells the players that Emilia mentioned Riptide Crew would be partaking in a dance competition today at the stage hall. She suggest the player catch them there so they can be updated on the situation.
At the competition, Emilia and Bodie are happy to see the player, explaining that one of their crew members flaked at the last moment due to "receiving an offer for dropping out". They aren't able to compete unless they can get another crew member ASAP.
The player dances with Riptide, helping them win the competition. The player then tells Riptide about the situation at DCI. Emilia wonders if DCI and it's agents are being sabotaged and suggests that this has "Dr. Tan written all over it."
Emilia tells the player to go meet Oblio, who is working at the dance studio downtown. If anyone would know what Dr.Tan is doing, it would be him!
The player arrives at the Dance Studio to meet Oblio and Hart, who are co-teaching a class. Hart explains that she works part time at the dance studio to supplement her hours at the club. Oblio got her the job as the two became close after the events of DCVR, where she stood up for him against Dr.Tan.
Oblio tells the player that the two have to finish the class before they can speak, but that the player is welcome to help. The player dances with the two, completing the class.
Oblio is distressed to hear of the potential sabotages and rushes off to see if his father is planning anything. He tells the player he will contact them or DCI as soon as he knows more. Hart, meanwhile, tells the player the location of Lush crew, having come to the studio after hanging out with Miss Aubrey.
The cycle continues. The player meets a crew, the crew has something that is going wrong, the player helps them fix it by dancing with them. Once the player meets with the last crew, Rasa and Lima tell the player to come back to headquarters, as all systems are back online.
At DCI, Rasa and Lima explain that they found the cause of the system failure: DCI was attacked by malware!
Having not heard back from Oblio (and his phone going straight to voicemail whenever anyone has tried to contact him), DCI assumes that Dr.Tan is behind the attack and that he has likely captured Oblio to either force him to be part of his plan or just keep him out of the way.
The player briefly trains with the DCI crew to ensure they are ready for the final showdown.
DCI rush to Tan's Estate, only to be greeted by....Eliot?
Eliot tells DCI that he has imprisoned Dr.Tan and Oblio (who is dramatically revealed to be tied to a chair in the background).
Eliot explains that after DC1, Dr.Tan shut him off and threw him into storage, deeming Eliot "obsolete." Having recently been turned back on by two kind strangers, Eliot took over Tan's Estate and imprisoned Dr.Tan. He wants revenge for being shut off!
When Oblio arrived to confront Tan, Eliot captured him too, although not to seek revenge against. Instead, he views Oblio as something like a brother and is trying to convince Oblio to join him. Meanwhile Oblio is not super on board with killing Dr.Tan, even if Tan has also wronged him in the past.
DCI battles Eliot, who they are able to defeat. They also convince him not to become evil and to instead seek to live his own life, separate from Dr.Tan.
After freeing Oblio (and Dr.Tan), the question of who sent the malware, sabotaged the crews, and turned Eliot back on remains.
That's when the Glitterati reveal themselves, admitting to causing the chaos.
The player throwdowns with them, wins, and the story mode comes to an end shortly after with everyone celebrating.
My most sincere hot take is that I really couldnt care less who Jack's dad is
I feel like the most important part of his lineage was always that Nightswan was his mother. Yes, theorizing that his dad was Crimson or Vester or the beta coach from 2014 was fun but at the end of the day what really mattered was who his mom was, not his dad. I geniunely feel like they never planned for him to have an officially announced father, but the community at the time kept asking about it, and if there was one thing Just Dance consistently did at the time, it was fanservice. Another example of this would be Telephone, were it was very clear they were setting Eva up to be the coach Icona was talking to, but instead did Rasputin (which like HUH) at the end because streamers theorized it was him
It also imo just ruins the characters of her potential love interests. Cygnus would infinitely be better as an older brother to Jack and I hate the implications The Traveler would have if Jack was his kid. I don't even hate that plot twist for Wanderrose sake, I hate it because it doesnt add up design wise and even if it did it ruins The Traveler and Si'ha Nova's whole plot.
Idk, maybe I'm being pissy, but I hope the reason why they aren't releasing storymode is because they had to change gear storytelling wise because of negative reactions to MOTDF and In Your Eyes
Performer Brezz vs Life Guard Jack, stupid but fun doodles. I really liked Brezziana, and jacks, there. If they ever add more avatar variants I think it’d be funny if they swapped their clothes like it’s so stupid but funny.
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